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This Is The Day
Second ECM album by the Giovanni Guidi Trio: Giovanni Guidi (piano), Thomas Morgan (double bass), João Lobo (drums), with nine Guidi originals, a Lobo piece and two standards. Recorded April 2014 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano; produced by Manf…
Mira
Studio album by Arild Andersen (double bass, electronics), Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone, shakuhachi) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums), mostly Andersen originals plus Bacharach's Alfie, recorded December 2012 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eic…
Tribe
Enrico Rava's quintet with trombonist Gianluca Petrella, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista and drummer Fabrizio Sferra, in Rava originals and a group improvisation. Recorded October 2010 at ArteSuono Studio, Udine, produced by Manf…
Jasmine
Duo album by Keith Jarrett (piano) and Charlie Haden (double bass): eight standards and love songs recorded in March 2007 at Cavelight Studio, Jarrett's home studio in New Jersey. Produced by Jarrett and Manfred Eicher, released 2010.
The Third Man
Duo album by Enrico Rava (trumpet) and Stefano Bollani (piano): originals by both, Bruno Martino's Estate, Jobim and Moacir Santos, plus a free improvisation. Recorded November 2006 at Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Lontano
Lontano (ECM 1980, 2006) is the third ECM album by the Tomasz Stańko Quartet, with Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Sławomir Kurkiewicz (bass) and Michał Miśkiewicz (drums), recorded November 2005 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines.
Soul of Things
Thirteen-part suite by the Tomasz Stańko Quartet: Stańko (trumpet), Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Sławomir Kurkiewicz (double bass), Michał Miśkiewicz (drums), all compositions by Stańko. Recorded August 2001 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1788, 2002.
The Water Is Wide
Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone) with Brad Mehldau (piano), John Abercrombie (guitar), Larry Grenadier (double bass) and Billy Higgins (drums), recorded December 1999 at Cello Studios, Los Angeles. Ballads, spirituals and Lloyd originals. CD edition.
The Melody At Night, With You
Keith Jarrett alone at the piano in ten jazz ballads and folk songs by Gershwin, Ellington, Kern, Levant and others, recorded in 1998 at his Cavelight Studio in New Jersey while he was recovering from a long illness. Released by ECM in 1999.
So I Write
First album under her own name by Norwegian singer Sidsel Endresen, with Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion), Django Bates (piano) and Jon Christensen (percussion), recorded in June 1990 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, and released by ECM i…